In summer 2025, when we started building fluado, one of our aspirations was to run outside US Big Tech. But in the big scheme of registering and building a company, it felt "not so important", so we started on Google Cloud because we were familiar with it. It felt icky, but it was one less thing to think about. Now one year later, we realised we had deepened our dependency on US providers: Cloudflare, GCP, Supabase, GitHub, Slack, Google Workspace, etc.
At the end of August we set out to move away from US tech. I never expected to do the bulk of this work in a week.
OUT: Google Cloud, Cloud Run, GitHub, Supabase Cloud, Firebase, Cloudflare, Slack
IN: Hetzner, Forgejo, self-hosted Supabase, Scaleway, Mattermost
Whether you run on GCP, AWS, or Azure, most of what we need has a European or self-hosted alternative. I hope this inspires more people to move away from US Big Tech.
Full article with all 17 changes and why I chose them: https://yves.vg/blog/leaving-us-big-tech-in-one-week.html
Still to do: Google Workspace and coding agents. And Let's Encrypt, I could not find a European drop-in replacement. If you have done something similar, or are planning to, let me know in the comments 🙂
Source: r/selfhosted · by /u/_yvg